Great white shark vs broom 2.0

A Victorian fisherman has had to shoo off a giant great white shark with a red broom, and it's not the first time he has used his trusty sweeper.

Dan Hoey and his crew were trying to attract yellow tail kingfish in Port Fairy, on Victoria's south west coast, to tag for scientific research when a four-metre great white shark slunk toward his boat on Wednesday.

The 39-year-old owner of Salty Dog Charter Fishing watched as the shark circled his vessel and was forced to whip out a broom to shove it off when it started "having a go" at a motor.

"We need the broom to clean at the end of the day, that's it's primary job. It's second job has become fending off white pointers," he told Nine.com.au.

"It was coming right up to the boat. It didn't bite it properly but it started to get pretty fired up at one stage."

A crew member pulled out their camera and started filming the apex predator swim near the boat, with its piercing black eye glaring out from the water.